Originally Posted by striker

Actually, anything you got dinged for while in a CMV, even if it was not a DOT inspection may show up. I pulled mine last week, there is a violation on it that I am not aware of and my company has nothing on. It shows on the PSP: 395.8 Log Violation (general/form and manner) issued in Wyo. Got the email today with an explanation and PDF of the violation report. This was from a routine, non-DOT traffic stop from a Wyo. trooper when I slid through a stop light on a wet road. I wasn't speeding or anything, the light changed, when I braked for it, I slid into the the intersection. Cop was sitting in a parking lot across the street doing paper work.

He pulled me over, gave me a verbal warning for that violation, then asked to see my log book. I was current and ready, handed it to him, but he noted that I had made a correction when I first started it that morning. I had wrote the wrong location for where I went on duty (I started my day in Billings, MT., then realized that I wrote down my home terminal location) I scratched it out, wrote in the correct location, but didn't initial the correction or flag it and explain why it was changed. I was never issued any paperwork for the stop, but the cop logged it in the system. I may try and fight it to get it removed.

There's the key phrase... WY state trooper. Had this been a local cop, I believe it would never have appeared in your CSA record. Being this guy was qualified to pull CVSA inspections... he slid a fast one in on you. According to the FMCSA, there should have been an official roadside inspection conducted to get that into the system... but as we all should guess by now the system has quite a few bugs yet.

Sounds like you just may want to Data-Q this one - on the basis of no official inspection was performed.

Originally Posted by striker

Actually, anything you got dinged for while in a CMV, even if it was not a DOT inspection may show up. I pulled mine last week, there is a violation on it that I am not aware of and my company has nothing on. It shows on the PSP: 395.8 Log Violation (general/form and manner) issued in Wyo. Got the email today with an explanation and PDF of the violation report. This was from a routine, non-DOT traffic stop from a Wyo. trooper when I slid through a stop light on a wet road. I wasn't speeding or anything, the light changed, when I braked for it, I slid into the the intersection. Cop was sitting in a parking lot across the street doing paper work.

He pulled me over, gave me a verbal warning for that violation, then asked to see my log book. I was current and ready, handed it to him, but he noted that I had made a correction when I first started it that morning. I had wrote the wrong location for where I went on duty (I started my day in Billings, MT., then realized that I wrote down my home terminal location) I scratched it out, wrote in the correct location, but didn't initial the correction or flag it and explain why it was changed. I was never issued any paperwork for the stop, but the cop logged it in the system. I may try and fight it to get it removed.

yep, even WARNINGS are a "dingable" offense...you can try to get it removed, but its a drawn out process. one can simply not say, "i got this on my record, and i do not deserve it".....once started, the filing goes to the law enforcement headquarters of the officers station. from there it just gets so involved. read about it, you will see its not all that easy to get removed.

nice thanks for this info

ok i got ten bucks lets do this
thanks for the post

You actually get the scorecard from www.vigillo.com/drivers
But the site is down.

Here's the site, but it's down right now.

www.vigillo.com/drivers

Originally Posted by ChromeDome

Yup, you can get it free from the freedom act, but you may have to wait 4-6 months to get it.
Or you can pay 10 bucks.
The fee is because the actual company sending the reports is a private company under contract with the FMCSA.

I have heard of allot of reports that are not accurate. One big one is for teams. It seems that all issues were reported on both drivers, and not just the one driving when inspected.

we have already found this to be true...even tho the other one didnt have log book etc inspected....he had a seat belt violation. its on my report, i had a license plate light out at an insp. its on his...